Women/Girls and Sports

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Sharpy

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I was just reading up on the little thing called Title IX and it made me start to think about progression of women and sports and how men percieve them. I was thinking about this mostly from a skiers perspective like with how Sarah burke and Kristi Leskinsen(SP) throw it down so well and are doing sport. I also saw the Progression ski camps thing and women and girls deffinetly have more oppurtunities now adaways then way back when. Ya, women/girls in sports. I hope it keeps progressing.

I go to the US on a ski trip and meet this american girl. She asks, 'where are you from?'. I answer, 'Ottawa, Canada'. 'Where's Ottawa', she replies. Oh man ...americans...
 
women/girl sports are definatly progressing, but i dont think the level of play in almost any sport will be the same as in mens... but women sports are definalty gettin more respect with me

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yeah there are some really sick girls out there, but they still dont get that noticed, like not being allowed to compete in the x games but women snowboarders can! whats up with that!!

 
Most of the girls i hang out with play sports and stuff, but its true the level they are at is soo much lower than boys. For example, during high school track, im like a decent athlete in boys, but in girls i would be the county champion in about 4 events. Also, our girls basketball team this year is all starting sophmores, and they are a very competetive team and have a good record. In boys sports this just doesnt happen

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Most of the girls i hang out with play sports and stuff, but its true the level they are at is soo much lower than boys. For example, during high school track, im like a decent athlete in boys, but in girls i would be the county champion in about 4 events. Also, our girls basketball team this year is all starting sophmores, and they are a very competetive team and have a good record. In boys sports this just doesnt happen

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thanks for the encouragement........ and as for the track running thing, i agree that womens sports are not at the same intensity level as men, but we arent exactly built to run, men carry oxygen through their blood stream 30% faster then men, obviously you are going to be faster and stronger... women play at the same intensity with other women, its just at a different level then men

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it's hard starting out when ur a girl cuz you feel like you have to be super good to be taken seriously. i remember when i started skateboarding at this park, and i was just learning to drop in and stuff, i felt like such an IDIOT, but i wanted to learn. Of course all the guys were like 'o how cute a girl who thinks she can ride. haha.' i HATE it when guys say that.

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^not true.....at least not from a skiing perspective....i NEVER see girls ripping it in the park seriously NEVER.....i've seen one female slide a rail this entire year, and it was actually a 15' funbox and she was on tele's! i give mad props when i see a girl that can do anything at all in the park

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yeah.... i wish girls were up to the same level in sports... but they're not. i've skied about 30 days at stratton this season, and during that time, i've seen 2 girls actually go in the park and try to throw down. one of them is my sister. you can talk all you want about how girls should have the same opportunites, and how girls are progressing, but i have to ask you this.... where are all the girls? there IS equal opportunity in skiing for girls... any girl that wants to, can take a run for the terrain park.... nobody will stop them... it's not like football, or hockey, where it would be hard for girls to get involved. it's easy to get involved... the opportunity is right there in front of their faces... (just strap on your skis and go) but so many of them don't take it. it's just like the skateboarding example somebody mentioned... yeah, anybody is allowed in the skate park. just because you're the only girl there, doesn't mean that that's the way it has to be, or will always be. bring your friends for godsakes. bring them skiing too. you'll get no disrespect. i love it when i see girls ripping. my only criticism is that i don't see it enough... where are all the girls? you girls think you can rip? get out there and rip. nobody is gonna hold you back. thats the other thing i would like to mention.... nobody is holding you back... there's no reason in skiing why girls shouldn't be as good as guys... this isn't weightlifting. girls are just as capable as guys, so i think they should be held to the same standard, and also compete with guys. nobody is stopping sarah burke from being as good as tanner hall, except for sarah burke. let 'em compete, but let them compete with the guys. it will push them harder.

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^that is very true........the only time when i go in the park is when i am with my guy friends (they push me more), yet when i'm by myself, i totally chicken out......i need to get over that

 
there was this thing i was watchin about skateboarding, and it was funny cus this chick comes on and shes like 'i like to see women out here pushing it, especially in a male dominated sport' dont get me wrong here i think its sweet for girls to ski and stuff or do any sport, actually i think its awesome, but can u really name one sport for me that isnt male dominated, unless its a female only sport in which case theres usually some guy that has played it and kicked ass

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I go to the US on a ski trip and meet this american girl. She asks, 'where are you from?'. I answer, 'Ottawa, Canada'. 'Where's Ottawa', she replies. Oh man ...americans...
 
yeah i never see any girls in the park where i ski, its annoying cos it would be cool to see more girls pushing it. i find it so intimidating as a girl and being maybe the only one there waiting to hit a jump with all these guys standing round. i feel like i have to be amazing or they'll just laugh.

 
u could have me on that one, but i dont know much about the sport so i cant really say

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Johnny d in the cribs segment of 1242

 
what about gymanstics? lol...

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Yeah, all the guys that i ski around or with always encourage us to pull jumps, they think its kick-ass that were out there trying to rip. O and Samck(whatever) please dont say 'sweet' it really feels undermining, i mean seriously. but meh, whatever, i see you do have a point, but its like as females, we are on a diffrent level than males (even though im sure we could be on the same) but i just dont feel any need to compare the two, well i suppose in some aspects its good to get girls to push themselves, but face it, we are built differently.

*sorry if i didnt make my point clear above...*

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for skiing, i really like it to ride with girls that are as good as/better than me. it's real fun.

definitely girls have a much better chance to grow in sport then some years ago. it's cool why should they not do the same thing as we do? but i hope 'women's skiing' progresses far more than girls do in snowboarding. in europe women can win an event with doing a 360 on a snowboard, even at the big contests. i hope girls will progress more in skiing.

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our bodies are alot more frail than a mans body, thats why you hardly ever see girls in the park doing rails.

i have never tried rails because when i see other girls doing it they are terrible at it and when they fall they look wrong.

were not to bad at ski racing!

 
sucks for girls the money will never be there like males. Only sport close is prbly tennis.

ps what do you think about girls on the PGA tour?

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women golfers are wrong!! they;re all butch lesbians same for some women tennis players!

i think that some girls are sick on rails, like kristi has a really nice style on rails and same bout my sister.

 
i know a hot girl golfer...

I go to the US on a ski trip and meet this american girl. She asks, 'where are you from?'. I answer, 'Ottawa, Canada'. 'Where's Ottawa', she replies. Oh man ...americans...
 
hahah justin, here i was thinking you were trying to scam somthing for your isu. I have alot of respect for the women who went against their time and propelled women into sports. that takes, for lack of a better term, balls. i know that if i was in their spot the chances of me making stands like they did would be next to nothing.

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^^^apple.. from a girls perspective that's really nice of you to say.. however.. 'i know that if i was in their spot the chances of me making stands like they did would be next to nothing.' i think you prolly would.. the reason the girls did is cuz they love that sport, whatever it may be.. i think if you were in their shoes and you loved it as much as they did, then you would too. not to say that wasnt a sweet thing of you to say. :D

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Women's sports has come along way especially in the past twenty years. Despite their growing skill level in competitive sports, the media doesnt give them as much air time, technically complex graphics and also most of the commentaries have alot of mistakes. You also see half of the picutres of women in sports as seductive imagery for the consumption of men. And theyre posed in pictures where theyre in an emotional state (women's soccer champs)over their particualar sport.... think about it, women are perceived as being the weaker sex both physically and emotionally.. its subconscious to most people. Im not saying that whats happening is absolutely horrible. BUt think, would you guys like to see a seductive pose of a man in a speedo next to his action shot just for the exploitation of his sexiness in his sport. I think you would eventually get bothered by it, if ti happened constnantly in every sports magazine including freeze. Dont get me wrong woman definitely need to adjust their own image of themselves as well. WE have alot of work left in the excercise and sport world.

 
girls are progressing... but they are still light years away from catching up with the guys. in skiing any way. im not being sexist, im being real.

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Lotus not all of us have frail bodies and lack athletic abibility. You are either a guy or an ignorant dumb bitch, who cant ski. Either way, stop talking.

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smithy, i definitly agree. when i saw that poster of kristi leskinen a few years back i got PISSED. i hated it that someone i looked up to in skiing would portray her self like that. i dunno, i think it'd be hard because in general there's a lot of pressure from the media and from society in general that tells girls how we have to act... but i dunno, it just pisses me off that girls fall to that pressure. i guess some girls arent bothered by it at all, and dont feel like theres any moral issues behind it, but that pisses me off even more.. i dunno, its complicated..

'...guess i'm just a hypocrite for living out my dreams... it may now make a difference, but i'm trying to make you see, may not make no sense to you, but i know it does to me.'
 
^I was just talking to someone about how bad they portray her in 1242. Starting out the segment with her falling on her ass and being scared doesnt represent women well. I also didnt like the little parts with her during a photoshoot. But then again, being a sex symbol will help boost your career, just look at Anna Kournikova. Im not ripping on kristi though, she is a great skier.

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someone explain why genders are split up in sports like pool, guys have no advntage over girls in some sports

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dude female tennis is awesome, it sounds like theyre orgasming when ever they hit the ball, same with x country when i ran next to my friend she sounded like she was ready to cum.... i got a boner

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bigskygirl the segment about fear in 1242 isnt showing that shes a pussy assed bitch, its showing that she has the persistence to try it until she gets it and thats not in any way a bad way to portray her, and the pictures of her in regular clothes are necessary

'hey can i have a butload of cash?... NO'

Johnny d in the cribs segment of 1242

 
if a women can rip thats rad, but otherwise they belong in the kitchen

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mutescratch i totally agree, i think girls arent as good as guys in most sports, but thats not a problem, they dont really need to be compared, its a totally different category, i love to see girls that rip, but they dont need to be as good as guys, its like a different sport

'hey can i have a butload of cash?... NO'

Johnny d in the cribs segment of 1242

 
that just amde me think of wrestling and boxing,there are different weight catigories, so that teh smalelr dues don't get creamed, girls are just i na different wieght catigory than most guys. If that made any sense.

I go to the US on a ski trip and meet this american girl. She asks, 'where are you from?'. I answer, 'Ottawa, Canada'. 'Where's Ottawa', she replies. Oh man ...americans...
 
^thats exactly the point i was trying to get across, thanks for helping me out, i was having trouble thinking of an example

'hey can i have a butload of cash?... NO'

Johnny d in the cribs segment of 1242

 
I've been skiing and playing soccer (which I happen to hate) longer than my brothers and I'm better than they are. But that's just because I rock so much harder than they do. I'm almost as good as my dad too, and he's like THE MAN

-Caitie-
 
i met this girl this weekend who skis and plays lacrosse...i've never meet a girl into same sports as i am...i hope it widens even more...

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Hey whatever. If it's on the east coast it sucks balls. Come out west. You'll shit you pants just looking at some of our terrain. Goddamn I hate all the fuckers like you on this site. Fuck off you cunt.

 
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samck98 i dindn't actually say girls aren't as good as boys. what i meant was in the past everybody looked at mens extreme sports and that's why girls now have some kind of disadvantage i think because people sometimes don't seem to take girls in extreme sports serious. but you are right when you say that we shouldn't compare girls and boys at that point.

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Women are doing well to their capablility, but specifically with sports, men are built to be better. Some sports have exceptions of course but generally, women aren't found on top when it's co-ed rankings. But it's good to see new women coming up in skiing ready to rip shit apart. And don't worry ladies we will always have a talent that men will never have.... FAKING ORGASMS.

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